Exercise 1: Create a template for the imported material

Lesson 4: Importing SDF Files as DWG Layers

Lesson 4: Importing SDF Files as DWG Layers

Exercise 2: Import the SDF layers

 

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Exercise 1: Create a template for the imported material

When you import the SDF file into a map, you convert the data to DWG objects. (If you connected to the SDF file, the objects would remain in SDF data format.)

In order to maintain the formatting of the original DWG objects that you exported to SDF, you must create a template that duplicates that formatting. The template specifies the layers for the SDF feature classes.

To create a template for the imported material

1. Open the original DWG file you exported to SDF.
   • Click File menu Open.
   • Select the sample map called DWGMap_09.dwg
2. Click File menu Save As.
3. Save the drawing as a template (.dwt) file called DWGImportTemplate.dwt.

   When prompted, enter a description of the template and leave the other settings set to their default values.

4. In the new template file, delete all the drawing objects so that the drawing is empty.

   Click Edit menu Select All, and then press the Delete key.

5. Save the template drawing file.
6. Create a new map using the DWGImportTemplate.dwt template.
   • Click File menu New.
   • Select the DWGImportTemplate.dwt template.
   • Click Open.

   You don’t need to assign a coordinate system to this new map, because that information is specified by the template.

To continue this tutorial, go to Exercise 2: Import the SDF layers